TODAY - February 16

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 16

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s HIGHLIGHTS:

They are Danish FASTELAVNSBOLLER.  Have a good look !   Shrovetide Buns.

Also on the photo below.   Getting hungry for one ?!

Here is how to make them:  fastelavnsboller | My Danish Kitchen  

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 10 hours and 8 minutes – from 07.53 to 18.01.

See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called JULIANE’s DAY.  Altogether three different saints who were killed because of their faith have given their name to the day.

In Belgium the name is also SAINTE JULIENNE – and it actually has its name from a 4th Julienne, who lived and worked in Liège from 1192-1258.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1558:  The whole population in the Netherlands was condemned to death by the roman-catholic church because of heresy.  They had become protestants!

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Money doesn’t smell  - what’s the origin of that? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from an event during the reign of the Roman emperor Vespasian (9-79 AC).  He had decided to introduce a special tax on public toilets. His son Titus was strongly against it.  Then Vespasian took a coin and put it under the nose of his son and asked, if it smelled. When Titus replied NO the emperor said:  And it is actually coming from the toilets.

After Vespasian the public toilets in Paris are actually often called Les Vespasiennes.

Today the expression money does not smell means that it is of no importance, where money comes from. Also if it comes from activities, which are more or less illegal. Money is money is another expression.  In other words: the expression money does not smell is not a very positive one.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Blood is thicker than water  -  Origin? Meaning?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

A person who does not lose his head over anything has nothing to lose.

This was said by the German poet and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

 

2.  Today’s quote:

Anyone with wife and children knows that tennis belongs to the easy things in life

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1831:  Nikolaj Leskov  ( died 1899 )

1921:  Hua Guafeng  ( died 2008 )

1926:  John Schlesinger  ( død 2003 )

1941:  Kim Jong-Il  ( died 2011 )

1959:  John McEnroe  

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1992:  Angela Carter  ( 52 years )

1999:  Björn Afzelius  ( 52 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE AT WORK   www.europe-at-work.be



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